Four More Starfish by Zhenne Wood

This big bright orange starfish danced off to a private collection in 2009!

This bangled and spangled golden starfish is all about Recovered Sunken Treasure:

This green and gold starfish makes me think of a Persian love poem for some inscrutable reason.   

 

Each of the more than a hundred starfish I have made over the years is one of my favorites - and especially this red thready one with a magnetic tophat and a big eye and a faux leopard print underbelly.  This one danced away into a private collection in 2003.

 

Comments

[Chandra Garsson]

These Starfishes are the most amazing little sculptures. My imagination and memory are immediatly fired up in the most deliciously wonderous way. I start to recite one of my favorite childhood poems:
..."Wynken, Bynken, and nod one night sailed off in a wooden shoe,/ onto a river of crystal light/ into a sea of dew./ The old moon laughed, when he saw the three..."
That is how this art makes me feel.

[Zhenne Wood]

Thank you, Chandra for your delightful comments! One of my strongest motivations for making my art is to stir up people's "imagination and memory in the most deliciously wonderous way"...I love your reference to Wynken, Blynken, and Nod! - also one of my favorite childhood poems. And this now comes to my mind:
"Stars in the skies, stars in the seas, stars in our eyes..." (Something I wrote about my starfish a few years ago) and then also this little song which I used to sing as I hula danced at the ocean as a child - I lived 3 houses from the beach at one point:

"By the sea, by the sea,
By the beautiful sea -
You and me, you and me
OH, how HAPPY we'll be!"

Have a deliciously wonderous day!

Zhenne